The Country School Christmas Program
The last part of November was preparation time for the big Christmas program at my country school.
Tag: prairie
A One-Room Schoolhouse on the Prairie
Grandpa looked at the shattered corn leaves. “This is hail country. We don’t want to settle here,” he stated in his native Czech. He was in the North Loup Valley in the early 1880s, looking for a suitable place to homestead.
Happy Birthday, Nebraska
150 years and countless reasons to celebrate.
A Great Loneliness: Looking for Animals on the Great Plains
Book review of American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains and Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores.